英语散文经典
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英语散文经典 篇1
Thc happy door
快乐之门
Happiness is like a pebble dropped into a pool to set in motion an ever-widening circle of ripples. As Stevenson has said, being happy is a duty.
快乐就像一块为了激起阵阵涟漪而丢进池塘的小石头。正好史蒂文森所说，快乐是一种责任。
There is no exact definition of the word happiness. Happy people are happy for all sorts of reasons. The key is not wealth or physical well-being, since we find beggars, invalids and so-called failures, who are extremely happy.
快乐这个词并没有确切的定义，快乐的人快乐的理由多种多样。快乐的关键并不是财富或身体健康，因为我们发现有些乞丐，残疾人和所谓的`失败者也都非常快乐。
Being happy is a sort of unexpected dividend. But staying happy is an accomplishment, a triumph of soul and character. It is not selfish to strive for it. It is, indeed, a duty to ourselves and others.
快乐是一种意外的收获，但保持快乐却是一种成就，一种灵性的胜利。努力追寻快乐并不自私，实际上，这是我们对自己和他人应尽的责任。
Being unhappy is like an infectious disease. It causes people to shrink away from the sufferer. He soon finds himself alone, miserable and embittered. There is, however, a cure so simple as to seem, at first glance, ridiculous; if you don’t feel happy, pretend to be!
不快乐就像传染病，它使得人们都躲避不快乐的人。不快乐的人很快就会发现自己处于孤独，悲惨，痛苦的境地。然而，有一种简单得看似荒谬的治病良方：如果你不快乐，就假装你很快乐!
It works. Before long you will find that instead of repelling people, you attract them. You discover how deeply rewarding it is to be the center of wider and wider circles of good will.
这很有效。不久你就会发现，别人不再躲着你了，相反，你开始吸引别人了。你会发觉，做一块能激起好意涟漪的小石头有多么值得。
Then the make-believe becomes a reality. You possess the secret of peace of mind, and can forget yourself in being of service to others.
然后假装就变成了现实。你拥有了使心灵平静的秘密，会因帮助他人而忘我。
Being happy, once it is realized as a duty and established as a habit, opens doors into unimaginable gardens thronged with grateful friends.
一旦你认识到快乐是一种责任并使快乐成为习惯，通向不可思议的乐园的大门就会向你敞开，那里满是感激你的朋友。
英语散文经典 篇2
生活的艺术
The art of living
生活的艺术
J. B. Priestley
约翰·博因顿·普里斯特利英国著名小说家
The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go. For life is a paradox: it enjoins us to cling to its many gifts even while it ordains their eventual relinquishment. The rabbis of old put it this way: “A man comes to this world with his fist clenched, but when he dies, his hand is open.”
生活的艺术在于懂得什么时候追求，什么时候放弃。因为生活就是一个矛盾体：它要我们紧紧抓住它赐予我们的生命之礼，然后最终又让它们从我们手中跑掉。老先生们说：“人们紧握着拳头来到这个世界上，离开这个世界时却摊开了双手。”
Surely we ought to hold fast to life, for it is wondrous, and full of a beauty that breaks through every pore of God’s own earth. We know that this is so, but all too often we recognize this truth only in our backward glance when we remember what was and then suddenly realize that it is no more.
当然我们应该紧紧把握生活，因为它美妙得不可思议，充满了从上帝的每个毛孔里蹦出来的美。我们都清楚这一点，但我们常常只有在回首往事时才会想去过去，才会突然意识到过去永远地消逝了，才会承认这个道理。
We remember a beauty that faded, a love that waned. But we remember with far greater pain that we did not see that beauty when it flowered, that we failed to respond with love when it was tendered.
我们都记得美的褪去，爱的老去。但我们更痛苦地记得美正艳时，我们却没有发现，爱正浓时，我们却没有回应。
Here then is the first pole of life’s paradoxical demands on us: Never too busy for the wonder and the awe of life. Be reverent before each dawning day. Embrace each hour. Seize each golden minute.
这就是生活对我们自己自相矛盾要求的第一步：永远不要因为忙碌而忽略了它的奇妙和庄严。对即将到来的每一天，我们都要心怀敬意，拥抱没一小时，抓住每一分钟。
Hold fast to life... but not so fast that you cannot let go. This is the second side of life’s coin, the opposite pole of its paradox: we must accept our losses, and learn how to let go.
抓住生活，但不要抓得太紧，以至你放不下手。这就是生活像硬币一样也有另一面，也是生活矛盾的另一极：我们必须接受放弃，并且学会怎样让它过去。
This is not an easy lesson to learn, especially when we are young and think that the world is ours to command, that whatever we desire with the full force of our passionate being can, nay, will, be ours. But then life moves along to confront us with realities, and slowly but surely this truth dawns upon us.
学会这些并非易事。特别是年少轻狂的时候，我们自认为是世界的主宰者，认为只要充满激情地全力追求，就可以得到一切。然而，事实并非如此。只有在面对种种现实时，我们才会渐渐没明白这个道理。
At every stage of life we sustain losses—and grow in the process. We begin our independent lives only when we emerge from the womb and lose its protective shelter. We enter a progression of schools, then we leave our mothers and fathers and our childhood homes. We get married and have children and then have to let them go. We confront the death of our parents and our spouses. We face the gradual or not so gradual waning of our strength. And ultimately, as the parable of the open and closed hand suggests, we must confront the inevitability of our own demise, losing ourselves as it were, all that we were or dreamed to be.
在人生的各个阶段，我们都会蒙受损失——并且在这一过程中成长。只有在脱离母体.失去庇护所时，我们才会开始独立的生活。我们不断地升学，接着又离开父母，离开儿时的故乡。继而，我们结婚生子，然后又放手让自己的子女出去闯荡。随着父母和配偶的相继离世，我们也逐渐或者很快衰老。最终，正如双手张开与紧握这一寓言所说，我们必须面对自身的死亡，失去原来的自我，失去我们拥有过或者憧憬过的一切。
英语散文经典 篇3
Survivor Not Statistic!
我不是个冰冷的统计数字，而是个幸存者
After enduring three years of abuse, and seeing it turn to my children I could not take it any more.
在忍受了三年的虐待之后，眼看着我的孩子也要受到虐待时，我再也受不了了。
Strength is more than the measure of muscle. Strength is the courage you muster to do even the things that seem impossible.
力量不仅仅取决于肌肉。力量就是你鼓起勇气去做那些看似不可能的事情。
That year there were 22,000 reported cases of abuse against children in my state.
那一年，在我的国家，有22000起虐待儿童案。
Taking my children from statistics to survivors was the greatest thing I have ever done in my life.
我一生中做过的最伟大的事情是把我的孩子从受害者变成幸存者。
Not being afraid to speak out against domestic violence any more empowers me. Jump out on that limb and reach for the greatness you deserve, you’re not just a statistic, you are a human, you are survivor just waiting to break free.
勇敢地说出反对家庭暴力更使我充满力量。跳出这一步，达到你应得的.伟大，你不只是一个统计数据中的受害者，你是一个人，你是一个等待获得自由的幸存者。
英语散文经典 篇4
A winter's past, God's heart seemed like a good winter, even a tear did not fall. It is seen from television that there have been serious drought in many areas of our country, and there are even 200 years of drought in some places. "This winter cover three layer is Steamed Buns pillow sleep" dream, this year seems to have vanished.
It was not bright that morning, and my mother suddenly woke me up: "all, get up, snow, and look at the snow." I heard you got out of bed and looked out of the window, wow! It's really snowing! The snow is still under, although it is not big, but I am very happy, this is the first snow this year. Neither fast nor slow snow from the sky falling down, gently falling on the ground, not a sound, as if afraid of the people awakened from sleep. There was a thin layer of snow on the ground, covering a layer of gauze with the house, the ground, and the car. All buildings, mountains and snow, is really a silver world!
Days gradually bright, the snow has stopped, the clouds gradually dispersed, the sun is at a vigorous pace climbed into the sky, the sun shines on the snow is very bright, ah! It's so beautiful! Although the snow was not a snowman, snowball fights, can alleviate the drought, but in my heart left a deep memory, after all, it was the first snow of 2011! It was the only snow in the winter.
一个冬天就快要过去了，老天爷的心情好像一直不错似的，一个冬天连一滴泪都没有掉下来。从电视上看到我国有好多个地区都出现了严重的旱情，个别的地方甚至出现200年一遇的旱灾。“今冬麦盖三层被，来年枕着馒头睡”的梦想，今年好像已 经破灭了。
那天早上天还没有亮，妈妈突然把我叫醒：“均均，快起来，下雪了，起来看雪”。我听了就一骨碌从床上爬起来，向窗外望去，哇！真的下雪了哎！雪还在下，虽然不大，但我已非常高兴了，这毕竟是今年的第一场雪啊！雪花不紧不慢的从天上飘落下来，轻轻地落在地上，没有一点声音，好像怕把人们从梦乡中惊醒似的。地上的雪已经有很薄的一层了，把房屋、地面、汽车都覆盖了一层薄纱。楼房、山川都银装素裹，真是一个银色的世界啊！
天逐渐亮了，雪也停了，阴云也慢慢的散去了，太阳公公也迈着苍劲的步伐爬上了天空，阳光照在雪上显得格外耀眼，啊！真是太美了！虽然雪下得不够堆雪人，打雪仗的量，也不能缓解旱情，但是在我心中却留下了深刻的记忆，毕竟那是2011年的第一场雪啊！也是这个冬天唯一的一场雪。
英语散文经典 篇5
One day May Day, my parents and I went to wuzhen tour.
Listen to mother say wuzhen is a writer MAO dun's hometown, is one of thejiangnan six famous town. Wuzhen has 1000 years of history, we entered the town,as if through the time tunnel. Along the river's house is a house with twopillar support a, are facing the river, with the Windows open, however, Windowswithout glass, but with a board to replace, not be a brace be open the windowwith a stick, stick to accept, shutters, shut the window. Town forms of Bridgescan be seen everywhere, narrow, short, wide, long, and has a top can shade... Inboth sides of the small town, there are many houses, in the evening, you canalso spend the night there, walking in the alleys paved with stones, listeningto the murmur of the little stream water, let you truly when one resident of thetown.
Wuzhen, of course, also have a lot of food snacks, so you can eat in theresidence to such as: victory cake, period of bread, and mutton noodles, BaiShuiyu, etc. We sat on the lake dwellings, while eating snacks, enjoy thebeautiful scenery of the lake, is really very comfortable.
If you have the opportunity to, be sure to go to wuzhen, look at thisbeautiful town, believe that will make you linger!
英语散文经典 篇6
I believe in the 50-percent theory. Half the time things are better than normal; the other half, they are worse. I believe life is a pendulum swing. It takes time and experience to understand what normal is, and that gives me the perspective to deal with the surprises of the future.
Let’s benchmark the parameters: Yes, I will die. I’ve dealt with the deaths of both parents, a best friend, a beloved boss and cherished pets. Some of these deaths have been violent, before my eyes, or slow and agonizing. Bad stuff, and it belongs at the bottom of the scale. Then there are those high points: romance and marriage to the right person; having a child and doing those Dad things like coaching my son’s baseball team, paddling around the creek in the boat while he’s swimming with the dogs, discovering his compassion so deep it manifests even in his kindness to snails, his imagination so vivid he builds a spaceship from a scattered pile of Legos.
But there is a vast meadow of life in the middle, where the bad and the good flip-flop acrobatically. This is what convinces me to believe in the50-percent theory.One spring I planted corn too early in a bottomland so flood-prone that neighbors laughed. I felt chagrined at the wasted effort. Summer turned brutal—the worst heat wave and drought in my lifetime. The air-conditioner died, the well went dry, the marriage ended, the job lost, the money gone. I was living lyrics from a country tune—music I disliked. Only a surging Kansas City Royals team, bound for their first World Series, buoyed my spirits.Looking back on that horrible summer, I soon understood that all succeeding good things merely offset the bad. Worse than normal wouldn’t last long. I am owed and savor the peaceful and happy times. They reinvigorate me for the next nasty surprise and offer assurance that I can thrive.
The 50 percent theory even helps me see hope beyond my Royals’ recent slump, a field of struggling rookies sown so that some year soon we can reap an October harvest. Oh, yeah, the corn crop? For that one blistering summer, the ground moisture was just right, planting early allowed pollination before heat withered the tops, and the lack of rain spared the standing corn from floods. That winter my crib overflowed with corn—fat, healthy three-to-a-stalk ears filled with kernels from heel to tip—while my neighbors’ fields yielded only brown, empty husks.
Although plantings past may have fallen below the 50-percent expectation, and they probably will again in the future, I am still sustained by the crop that flourishes during the drought.
英语散文经典 篇7
I was in search of it, but I didn't know what I was looking for. There was a strange feeling in my heart, and the idea would be different from others. I do things will be more calm than before, will not be like the former kind of naughty, to do a slowly mature people, youth is very wonderful.
I know what I am looking for, the footsteps, the expectations and the longings of my youth. Eternal dreams. I often encourage yourself, do a mature person, don't let people see themselves as a child, I was a middle school of the people, is no longer a child like, the innocent dream close, with enough confidence to face the reality and dream of easy, difficult to realize.
From today, don't be afraid. The skylight will always open...